Services
Contact center technical support
With a support plan, your contact center changes as your business does, and you don't need in-house telephony and server engineers. The CONTACT.WORK engineers who launched your system set up new queues, numbers, reports, and integrations on request. We monitor your lines and servers around the clock and handle backups and updates ourselves, without counting them against your hours. Changes you request are billed in support plan hours.
Request№ 1287from sales managerIssuenew numberto "Sales" queueEngineerGregknows your systemStatusdone1 plan hourScope
What support covers
We do the first four on request, using plan hours; the rest we do continuously at no charge.
Examples
How support handles real requests
Situations customers bring to us, and how each one ends.
A separate queue for a promotion
The company is launching a promotion, and its calls need to be kept apart from the rest. The manager submits a request, and the engineer creates a separate queue, updates the IVR, and adds the topic to the report. Promotion calls go to the new queue, and the manager sees them separately.
- Manager's request
- New queue
- Its own report line
Requestqueue for promo10:20IVR"Promo" optionaddedQueue"Promo"createdReport"Promo" rowaddedCalls keep dropping
Agents complain that calls cut off. Using the telephony logs, the engineer finds the cause – a fault on the carrier's line. The engineer sends the carrier the evidence and follows up until it's fixed, while agents keep working.
- Telephony logs
- Ticket with the carrier
- Agents stay focused
Complaints6 dropsthis morningLogspacket loss on linewith agentTo agentticketwith logsSummaryfixedthe next dayUploading a list and exporting calls
Sales needs a calling list, and the director wants the quarter's calls. The engineer loads the list into the system and prepares a file with calls and survey answers. Nobody has to wrestle with file formats.
- List upload
- Call export
- Excel or your software
Dialing list4,200 numbersuploadedCalls this quarter18 640in a fileCall formsresponsesin the same fileFormatExcelas requestedTelephony goes down overnight
Telephony fails in the middle of the night. The on-call engineer (if you have 24/7 on-call coverage) responds within 30 minutes and starts restoring service right away, without waiting for morning. In the morning, the manager gets a review: what happened, what was done, and how to prevent it from happening again.
- On-call engineer
- 30-minute response
- No waiting for morning
02:14no callsalert02:31on-call engineerconnected03:05telephonyrunningMorningpost-mortemcause and fixesThe scope of work differs slightly by plan – see the comparison on the pricing page.
Results
What support does for your business
Monitoring
We spot problems first
Monitoring raises an alert when something goes wrong, and an engineer starts working on it without waiting for your call.
- Services
- Internet
- Carrier connections
Platform servicesrunningallInternetnormal40% loadCarrier lines2 of 2connectedAlertnonepast 24 hrsBackups
No lost data
Settings and customer data are backed up regularly. After a failure, data is restored from the latest backup.
- Settings
- Databases
- Recovery
Settingsbackuptoday 3:00 AMDatabasesbackuptoday 3:10 AMLast backuptonightreadyAfter a failurerestorefrom latest backupRequests
Changes without a new contract
Your request goes to an engineer who knows your system. Each request gets a number, so you can see whether it's in progress or done and how many hours it took. No need to agree on a contract and price every time.
- A number for every request
- Status and hours
- No extra contracts
Received11from managersDone10in plan hoursIn progress1branch reportAvg. response25 minPro planReport
A monthly support report
The report shows the month's requests, the hours spent on them, and any outages. The manager sees what they're paying for and decides whether the plan is the right fit.
- Requests
- Hours
- Outages
Leads3837 doneHours14of 16 in planOutages1at the carrierTakeawayplan fits2 hrs to spareUpdates
New versions at no extra cost
We install new platform versions at a time that suits you, and with each release we explain what's new and what will be useful to you. No licenses required.
- Latest versions
- At a convenient time
- What's new for you
Versionreleasednew reportsInstallationSat 10:00 PMagreedLineranno downtimeWe sharedwhat's newand what helps youProcess
How support gets started
- 01OnboardingWe review your system's settings, integrations, and the questions that come up most often.
- 02Ground rulesWe agree on who submits requests, through which channel, and what counts as an outage.
- 03Day-to-day workWe take requests and escalate complex cases to tier 2 engineers and developers.
- 04ImprovementsFor recurring questions, we write how-to guides and run short training sessions.
Terms
Support terms
- Response time
- 30 minutes, 1 hour, or 2 hours, depending on the plan
- Schedule
- Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-6:00 PM your local time
- Weekends
- Can be added to any plan
- 24/7
- A separate add-on for the Pro and Maxi plans
- Hours
- Don't roll over to the next month; extra hours at your plan's hourly rate
- Annual billing
- The 12th month is free
Planning
What to decide before support starts
Q&A
Frequently asked questions
What does technical support include?
On request: consulting, configuration changes, data import and export, and integration setup. On our own and at no charge, we monitor the system, back up your data, update it, and fix bugs.
Which work doesn't use plan hours?
Monitoring of services, internet, and carrier lines; backups and recovery; installing new versions; bug fixes; security; and SSL certificates.
How fast do you respond?
On Start, you get a response within two hours; on Standard, within an hour; on the top plans, within 30 minutes. Response time is counted in business hours.
Do you work weekends and nights?
Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays can be added to any plan. 24/7 on-call coverage is available as an add-on to Pro or Maxi: outside business hours, the on-call engineer handles outages.
How are hours counted?
By the time our specialists spend on your tasks. We group small, similar requests together and count them as one hour.
Do unused hours expire?
Hours are tied to the month and don't roll over to the next one.
What if we run out of hours?
You buy extra hours at your plan's rate. If you run short regularly, a bigger plan costs less.
What if many requests come in at once?
Outages come first, then other requests in the order they arrive. Your plan's response time applies to every request.
What do you do after an outage?
We explain the cause and the steps already taken, and propose measures to keep it from happening again.
Do you report on your work?
Every month we send a report: requests, hours used, and outages.
Can we use hours for custom development?
On Maxi, plan hours also cover building new reports, fields, workflows, and integrations – no separate contract needed.
Do you support the system on our own servers?
We support it the same way as the cloud version. We connect with an account your IT team provides, and every connection we make is logged. If access is restricted – for example, your employee has to approve each login – a small surcharge is added to the plan.
Can we order only tier 1 or tier 2 support?
You can. At tier 1, our agents answer your customers by phone, messaging, and email on behalf of your company, handle routine questions, and help new users. At tier 2, engineers work through complex technical cases – including those escalated by your own tier 1 team.
How much does support cost?
The platform itself is free. You choose a support plan, plus hosting if you run in our cloud. Plans differ by the number of hours and response time. Contact us for pricing.
Glossary
Terms on this page
- Backup
- Data is regularly copied to a separate place so it can be restored if something goes wrong. Learn more →
- Hosting
- You rent a server from a provider instead of buying one. Learn more →
- Escalation – passing an inquiry to the next level
- Passing a complex inquiry to a specialist at the next level. Learn more →
- Cloud deployment (cloud)
- The platform runs on the vendor's servers, and agents connect over the internet. Learn more →
- CRM – customer relationship management
- Where a company keeps its customers, deals, and full communication history. Learn more →
- IVR (interactive voice response)
- A phone menu: the caller hears a greeting and picks the right department. Learn more →
- On-premises deployment
- The system runs on the company's own servers, not in the vendor's cloud. Learn more →
- Support tiers
- A support tier: tier 1 handles common issues, tier 2 handles complex ones. Learn more →
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